7 JANUARY 1882, Page 35

Higher Aspects of Spiritualism. By "M. A." (Oxon.) (E. W.

Allen.)—" M. A." pleads for the importance of Spiritualism, and its teachings as regards Revealed Truth, and attempts an apology for its existence. At the same time, he protests against the indiscriminate identification of it with impostures that have been carried on in its name. To enter into these questions would be beyond our present purpose, but we may say that the writer argues his case with con- siderable power.

We have to acknowledge the second edition, "greatly enlarged," of valuable monograph, Pheasants : their Natural History and Prac- tical Management. By W. B. Tegetmeier. (Horace Cox, the Field Office.) —The natural history of the bird, its management in coverts and in confinement, and the best species adapted severally for the covert and the aviary, are successively discussed.